Filmmaker Rob Stewart dies off Alligator Reef
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seriously, the CG is part of the government...first rule of scuba diving
We had a recent thread on ScubaBoard about a diver who reached the surface in distress and then drowned. The Coast Guard cited the boat captain for the many lapses in standard procedures for supervising divers and for performing the rescue.
St John the Diver
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The Coast Guard does this routinely. A local dive boat captain had his license pulled for 120 days for failing to go get a random drug test after one of his divers (1) went home, (2) felt crummy after dinner, and (3) went to the chamber just in case. The dive boat captain was cited for failing to report a "major marine casualty", and for failure to have the entire crew drug tested after this "major marine casualty". Just because the boat has nothing to do with the incident is irrelevant to these guys. If they can find the most obscure regulation you may have broken it's "good bye" to your license. Well, a fine at the very least. You can bet that they spent as much time counting the life jackets and looking at the dates on the flares of the boat as they did looking at the diving gear. At least they know how to look to see if a flare is out of date. Diving gear and procedures? Not so much.
St John the Diver
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"If" the boat was chartered and not a "private boat taking out friends" (wink wink)...
Not that dive operations down there are known to cut corners and claim that "we're all just friends going diving. What license?"
I have no knowlage in this case, but I've seen this done dozens upon dozens of times.
St John the Diver
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A year plus.
I doubt they'd get away with that since The Pisces is owned by a dive company "Horizon Divers". They'd probably give up any protections they might have from agencies and insurance companies in the process. They'd also open themselves up to criminal prosecution for fraud or making false statements to police or whatever it could wind up being. If it were me, I'd be open an honest about everything remotely involved... unless they had something really awful to hide - which I am not suggesting they do.
alewar
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His first CCR class was August 2016... that was his Hypoxic? Trimix course on Jan 27th. Someone posted screenshots of Add Heliums Facebook a few pages back with each CCR course on it (he did 3: August, September, and January).
The August course said he was a new rEVO diver... the September and January courses were both labeled as 'trimix' so one can assume the September was normoxic and the January was hypoxic.
So the posts clearly show us the training progression... CCR Air to CCR Hypoxic Trimix in <6mo.
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